What to do about prenatal anxiety

Prenatal anxiety is also relatively common. Through surveys, it is found that 98% of pregnant women will have prenatal anxiety problems. On the one hand, they will worry about the health of their children, and on the other hand, they will worry about their own health problems, which will cause an anxiety phenomenon. When this anxiety phenomenon occurs, pregnant women and families need to work together to eliminate this prenatal anxiety, emphasize nurturing and care, and prepare for the arrival of new life.

5 ways to relieve prenatal anxiety

Pregnant women should take a positive attitude to eliminate prenatal anxiety in the late pregnancy. Of course, this requires the joint efforts of pregnant women and their families.

In the final stage of pregnancy, pregnant women often show strong psychological dependence and hope to seek protection and attract attention from others. This reaction is not being squeamish, but a normal psychological reaction. Pregnant women may chatter incessantly, which is a reasonable channel for venting negative emotions. At this time, the husband should understand his wife's emotional fluctuations, listen to her patiently, give her spiritual encouragement and comfort, dispel her worries, and especially not put pressure on her regarding the gender of the child.

Tight abdominal wall can cause many kinds of discomfort to pregnant women. The husband can stroke his wife's abdomen at night. On the one hand, it can communicate with the baby whom he has not met yet, and on the other hand, it can alleviate his wife's discomfort, satisfy her dependence psychology and improve her anxiety.

Pregnant women should learn relevant knowledge, increase their understanding of themselves, enhance their self-confidence in giving birth to a healthy baby, and correct their incorrect understanding of childbirth. Pregnant women with prenatal complications should actively treat the complications, maintain a close relationship with their doctors, seek advice in a timely manner when they have questions, and maintain a good mood.

Talk to some mothers and ask for their experiences. Before giving birth, do some health-promoting activities, such as knitting, painting, singing, taking a walk, etc. Don't stay at home and lie in bed all day, focusing on worries about the future.

Analysis of the causes of antenatal anxiety

1. Most urban women are first-time mothers and lack direct experience of childbirth. I have heard and witnessed many painful childbirth experiences of others on television, newspapers and other media. Considering that I will also go through this process, I can't help but feel anxious.

2. Afraid that the child will be deformed.

3. Concerns about the gender of the fetus.

4. Pregnant women who suffer from prenatal complications such as pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome, pregnancy-related heart disease, etc., are prone to anxiety because of their own health problems and are also afraid of harming the fetus.

5. As pregnancy progresses, various discomfort symptoms worsen, such as skin spasms and itching, tight and swollen abdominal wall skin, etc., which make people irritable and anxious.

6. Due to mobility problems, people stay at home all day, focusing on various negative factors, which increases anxiety.

7. Worrying that one’s career will be affected or the family’s financial pressure will increase after the birth of the child, causing anxiety.